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<blockquote data-quote="yogi" data-source="post: 1712251" data-attributes="member: 8542"><p>Quicklook is built into OS X, it's not an application, but rather a feature to quickly see the contents of a file: <a href="https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18813?locale=en_US" target="_blank">https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18813?locale=en_US</a></p><p></p><p>As for Gmail, you obviously are using Gmail's website to access your mail. A mail client would be a program on your computer (such as Apple Mail, or Microsoft Outlook) that fetches your mail for you.</p><p></p><p>Before you go off deleting any mails, be aware that this has nothing to do with your computer. The mails aren't on your computer, they are on Gmail's servers in the cloud. This means that deleting old e-mail won't have any benefit in terms of performance or space of your computer. Gmail can handle it. If you want to just clean up, however, read on.</p><p></p><p></p><p>On Gmail's site, you can search at the top. Enter the following text there, replacing the date with your "cutoff" date before which you want to delete all mail:</p><p></p><p>sent before:2016/01/01 </p><p></p><p>Hit enter, and see the results.</p><p>Now click the "select all" button that looks like a checkbox at the top left, right below the search box.</p><p>All mails will be selected and shown in yellow. At the top of the list, there is a link saying "Select all conversations that match this search". Click that.</p><p>Now press the delete key.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yogi, post: 1712251, member: 8542"] Quicklook is built into OS X, it's not an application, but rather a feature to quickly see the contents of a file: [url]https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18813?locale=en_US[/url] As for Gmail, you obviously are using Gmail's website to access your mail. A mail client would be a program on your computer (such as Apple Mail, or Microsoft Outlook) that fetches your mail for you. Before you go off deleting any mails, be aware that this has nothing to do with your computer. The mails aren't on your computer, they are on Gmail's servers in the cloud. This means that deleting old e-mail won't have any benefit in terms of performance or space of your computer. Gmail can handle it. If you want to just clean up, however, read on. On Gmail's site, you can search at the top. Enter the following text there, replacing the date with your "cutoff" date before which you want to delete all mail: sent before:2016/01/01 Hit enter, and see the results. Now click the "select all" button that looks like a checkbox at the top left, right below the search box. All mails will be selected and shown in yellow. At the top of the list, there is a link saying "Select all conversations that match this search". Click that. Now press the delete key. [/QUOTE]
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